_________________Did you notice the slight feeling of panic at the words "Chicken Basin Street"? Like someone was walking over your grave? Try not to remember. We must never remember. - mumblesIs this about devilberries and nazifruit again? - footface

A pipe bomb, FFS! (Funny story, that... There's a reason they tell you to check if anyone has tampered with your luggage.)

WHAT THE WHAT?

Yes....WHAT?

_________________Did you notice the slight feeling of panic at the words "Chicken Basin Street"? Like someone was walking over your grave? Try not to remember. We must never remember. - mumblesIs this about devilberries and nazifruit again? - footface

A pipe bomb, FFS! (Funny story, that... There's a reason they tell you to check if anyone has tampered with your luggage.)

WHAT THE WHAT?

Yes....WHAT?

So... the story behind that one?

I have interesting friends. I was visiting one of these, who herself has some even more interesting friends, and as we were sitting and chilling in her dorm when I was visiting her in London on my half-term break, she started rifling through her desk for cigarettes or something, and then paused abruptly, and then proceeded to fish out a pipe bomb her friend had made - apparently they'd set off all the others in the park earlier. Or something. She asked me if I wanted it - so I said "Uh, sure" because my brain still hadn't caught up with the fact that she was brandishing a bomb. So she chucked it at my head, and I ended up taking it back to school with me. This was the kind of school which had room searches to check for booze, and when one of these loomed, I buried the thing in a jar of dirt to hide it, because in no search had anyone ever opened the jar of dirt. (Obviously nobody was taking their cues from Norrington.)

Then I completely forgot about it.

Six months later, when my father came to visit, he offered to take back a bag of assorted personal affects I would not need in the time between then and graduation, so I gave him my little treasure chest, packed with a plastic skull, some random knickknacks, and... a jar of dirt.

It was only about a month later that I started looking to see what the fizzle I had done with my pipe bomb, and realised - oh. shiitake. And then nervously phoned my father.

And if that happens, what then? How will we keep American aircraft safe from the buttbombers?

Mandatory pre-flight enemas. I'm OK with it if it makes us safer.

If cavity searches are go at some future point, I'mma be really pissed if my boyfriend goes through security because "it makes us safer" but still won't let me play with his butt. One would think girlfriend fingers > government fingers.

There is almost nothing I hate more than small ignorant people with too much authority! That woman had way more patience than I ever would have. I would have kirked out on them and gotten arrested. I'm hoping she has some sort of grounds for a lawsuit.

You guys have convinced me. No trip to Germany next year if the TSA is still this out of control. The vids have shown me that even they can't believe they're being crassholes not for the sake of security; they're being crassholes because they can get away with it or because they're afraid of being fired for not going along with what their supervisors say.

Mother harassed and forced to miss flight. The vid is long but makes up for it in infuriatingness.

I was pretty convinced I'd gotten to the maximum rage peak about halfway through, but I watched until the end. The last 20 seconds make me feel like hitting a brick wall with a baseball bat until the bat is in tiny little splinters all over the floor. Goddamn!

New stories every day, that's how it got so damn long. It's kind of nerve-wracking, actually.

So, last week, I flew out of Chicago, and nary a person was asked to go through the x-ray scanners (our stuff did, but our bodies didn't). I was all hyped up to opt out and I just had to walk through a metal detector. It took me fewer than fifteen minutes to get from the front door of the airport to my gate. Chicago has thex-ray scanners, so I don't know why they weren't using them. The optimist in me wants to think it's because everyone on the internets was making such a stink, and the TSA didn't want to deal with the hassle the day before Thanksgiving? That's prgoress, right? Something?

I didn't go through an x-ray scanner on the way back, because Sacramento doesn't have them, yet.

No drama for me. Yet.

_________________"So often I wish Adam were a real boy." - interrobang?!"If he was you'd hear him farting at the back of your yoga class." - 8ball

Thank you for this article. While awful, it just furthers my belief of how incredibly inappropriate this is for children especially.

Quote:

Children "don't have the sophistication" to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he said.

The TSA policy could "desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children," Wooden added

Very true. I say children especially, but I do believe it's inappropriate for everyone. It's completely out of control. I haven't watched the video that was posted above because I'm not in a mood where I want to rage right now. I know that at certain airports, pilots just have a sticker affixed to their car and they drive into a special parking lot for pilots and aren't even screened until after they're through a certain part of the airport. I mean, there are numerous ways around security, there are stories of bombs being mailed in the bellies of planes... and this. This.

I haven't weighed in on the issue yet, but that video makes me so forking angry.

What was the point of keeping her penned up? Why did they refuse to follow their own rules about the "special liquids"? HOW THE HELL IS THIS FIGHTING TERRORISM. I applaud that woman, I can't say I wouldn't have been arrested.

I haven't weighed in on the issue yet, but that video makes me so forking angry.

What was the point of keeping her penned up? Why did they refuse to follow their own rules about the "special liquids"? HOW THE HELL IS THIS FIGHTING TERRORISM. I applaud that woman, I can't say I wouldn't have been arrested.

I know this has all been said, but damn. I need a cookie. Or 5.

because she compained about them previously. that was them getting back at her. (and denying a child of a few hours of food. way to go, TSA) plain and simple, they were being petty bisques.